Lenny RachitskyHost of Lenny's Podcast | Author of Lenny's Newsletter

How AI will change the PM role in companies

21 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk arguing that generative AI (LLMs) will substantially change how software products are built and how organizations are structured. The speaker predicts that within 1–5 years PMs will shift from writing tickets to directly implementing product changes using AI-assisted tooling, altering org charts and competitive winners.

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It just kind of clicked as like, oh well this is, this is going to change everything. The entire software world order is going to get rewritten here. Like the way that companies are organized to build software today, totally going to change. PMs are the people that really understand like to the pixel level, like what matters into making a great product experience. And often they have to go and harangue the developers to like get things to be how they really ought to be, like to, to the smallest levels. And now like how this is going to work if you fast forward, you know, one to five years, whatever, like PMs, they're going to be writing quote, quote, unquote instead of just writing a JIRA ticket and waiting for a developer to do it. The developers are going to be able to work on intellectually challenging tasks that LLMs are not well suited for, but PMs are going to be able to go in and just make the changes themselves. What blew my mind is it's not reflected in the org charts of all the software companies in the world right now that is going to completely change the winners. At least the org charts are going to completely change in how they approach building products and shipping products.